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Auction House:
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
Prices available:96
Category:
Ceramics - Chinese
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A Chinese export dish, decorated in underglaze blue and white, the cavetto with repeating scrolling S motifs, between buddhist symbols, the centre of similar motif, 18th / 19th century, Qing Dynasty. 25 cm D ***
*** A Chinese blue and white float bowl with marks to base ***
*** Pair of Doucai bowls with floral roundels (green & blue). 6 character marks to base ***
*** 'Doucai' wine cup with six Yongzhen Reign mark on base ***
*** A pair of pale celadon bulbous vases decorated with flowering plants on wooden stands. Purchased at Bonhams and Goodman Auction May 2002, catalogue item number 602, 36 cm high ***
*** A pair of Chinese porcelain Gu-shaped beaker vases in underglaze blue, two double rings to base, each painted with stylized plantain leaves and the central bulbous band of archaistic taotie masks, height 23 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain water pot, Ming Dynasty. Provenance: The private collection of an Eastern suburbs gentleman. Height 4 cm. Diameter 9 cm ***
*** Studio pottery, (20th century), celadon glaze spherical vase, Inscised Chinese character mark to base, height 18.5 cm ***
*** An 18th century Chinese famille rose teapot with silver spout ***
*** A Chinese apple-shaped water pot, Guangxu mark to base, 20th century, designed as ornamental and functional for the scholar's table, a channel around the short neck for dripping water, a good even glaze, D 9 cm, height 7.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese Wucai jar 35 cm ***
*** A Chinese celadon cosmetics box, the lid finely carved with floral motifs, the interior divided into sections by flowering stems separating the three small bowls within. Diameter 13.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese yellow monochrome bowl of circular form with slightly everted rim, the exterior incised with anhua dragon the interior with phoenix, apocryphal six character underglaze blue Guangxu mark, but later. 13 cm D ***
*** A Chinese celadon bowl of conical form, the interior carved with leafy branches, the exterior with fluting. Diameter 16.5 cm. ***
*** A Chinese porcelain brush pot, with the signature of a Zhushan artist, dated 1919, Jingdezhen six character mark to base, painted with a classical scene in underglaze blue, height 11.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain dish in the famille verte palette, seal mark of Daoguang [1821-50], 19/20th century, painted in hues of blue-green, a lake in the foreground and a house in the distance with mountains behind, fitted box [2], diameter 9 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain wall vase, 19th/20th century, a tapered vase with a high finely beaded back, painted in overglaze enamel, height 23 cm ***
*** Five Chinese blue and white plates, various marks to base, two with wax seals ***
*** A water pot with carved and applied decoration, impressed mark to base, Qing Dynasty 19th century. Wang Bingrong, diameter 7 cm. Provenance: The Estate of the late June Fairall ***
*** A Chinese porcelain water pot, the beehive shape with moulded decoration, late Qing Dynasty, calligraphy on the reverse of the monochrome glaze, diameter 6.5 cm. Provenance: The Estate of the late June Fairall ***
*** A Yixing boxed tea service teapot with six cups and saucers ***
*** A Tang style Chinese lobed gilt bowl, externally decorated with animals & flowers & with a central mythical animal roundel to interior. Diameter 11 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain bowl and cup stand, 20th century the first of typical deep well form the second of shallow circular form with raised central recessed medallion, both decorated with yellow glaze, beneath each an anhua dragon, both with Apocryphal marks… ***
*** Two Chinese blue and white saucers late Qing, with foliate rim decorated with floral scenes, four character mark to base. Provenance: from a private Australian collection 15 cm diameter ***
*** An ovoid Chinese porcelain jar & Underglze blue Jarlet, Qing dynasty, height 8 & 13 cm ***
*** A large Chinese porcelain jar, painted with figures between bands of traditional motifs, a fitted woven rattan basket, height 29, diameter 38 cm ***
*** A large ovoid shaped vase, painted with auspicious motifs in enamel on a green ground, Qianlong seal mark, 20th century motifs include; bats, peaches, pomegranate & the endless knot, height 35 cm ***
*** An underglaze blue covered jar, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, painted with lotus and scrolling leaves and a band of ruyi around the shoulder, height 12 cm ***
*** A large Chinese bottle vase painted with a red dragon writhing around the body & neck, Qianlong seal mark, 19th/20th century. Height 34 cm, width 21 cm ***
*** A Chinese double gourd vase in a drunken beauty glaze, a six character Kangxi mark, 1662-1722, a combination of red flecks on an amber ground, height 24 cm, D. 14 cm ***
*** A pair of Chinese famille rose rouleau vases, painted with birds in a rocky garden with auspicious flowers, Republic period, one with a silver mouth collar, condition, Restoration to one rim, and a hairline crack from rim to neck. Provenance: A North… ***
*** A celadon glaze vase with dragon motif, with Qianlong mark, height 24 cm ***
*** An earthenware Chinese ribbed jar with double handles. Covered all over in celadon crackled green glaze. Qing Dynasty. Height 18 cm ***
*** A matching pair of Chinese porcelain vase lamps with superb hand painted traditional scenes 80 cm high, 53 cm diameter ***
*** A tall rouleau shaped vase, two bands of panels painted in underglaze blue, a diaper painted around the mouth rim, height 48 cm ***
*** A large Chinese white glazed straight sided pot, with lion mask handles, height 28 cm, diameter 22 cm ***
*** A very fine Chinese porcelain straight sided bowl with a band of incised pink top and bottom and two wider bands of yellow with stylized dragons. An underglaze blue six character mark of Yongzheng 1723-1735. Diameter 10.5 x 6 cm ***
*** A small Chinese porcelain bowl painted with coral coloured bats amongst blue & white clouds, six character apocryphal Kangxi mark to base, Qing Dynasty, chips around foot rim, 10 cm diameter. Provenance: Private Sydney collector, purchased in 1960's ***
*** A Chinese brush pot, Republic period, iron red mark to base decorated with a traditional landscape mountain scene in the famille verte palette, height 16 cm ***
*** A mirror pair of tall Chinese porcelain bottle shaped vases, painted with a peacock Fanning his tail, mid 20th century, iron red mark to base - made in Jingdezhen, the peacock & peahen balancing on an old pine tree, sprigs of bamboo & stems of flowering… ***
*** A large Chinese porcelain vase, with Jingdezhen mark to the base and shoulder, Wan Qinghua Studio, Jingdezhen circa 1990. Note: 1990s was the period of reviving the ceramic workshops of Jingdezhen and a cross roads of modern design with traditional shapes… ***
*** A Chinese polychrome 100 deer shaped vase, with elephant handles, a scene of spotted deer under a pine tree, the reverse with calligraphy, height 30 cm ***
*** A Chinese lidded bulbous jar with continuous sweet Pea design, late Qing Dynasty, height 32 cm ***
*** Chinese ceramic figure of red guard 'Denouncing Intellectual Statue' showing Humiliation, Cultural Revolution 966-1976. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 33 cm ***
*** Chinese ceramic figure of young Revolutionary woman with right arm raised in Defiance from Cultural Revolution period 1966-1976. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 32 cm ***
*** Chinese ceramic figure of young Revolutionary woman with rifle over shoulder from Cultural Revolution period 1966-1976. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 33 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain bowl the well decorated in enamels depicting a girl with a basket of peaches, circa 20th century, 25 cm diameter ***
*** A famille rose teapot and cover landscape scene with Poem to side, signed ***
*** A pair of Chinese enamelled lidded Meiping shaped jars, Yongzheng mark to base, painted with phoenix & a continuous scrolling vine pattern [2], H. 25 cm ***
*** A Chinese tea Dust glazed vase with Garlic neck vase decorated with dragon decoration with six character mark to base 20.89 cm high ***
*** A fine Chinese blanc de chine 'Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea' sculpture, each holding their attributes seated on a bamboo shoot shaped boat 35 x 28 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain vase decorated with a hundred children, with wood stand, marks to base. Purchased Taylor's Chin Hua Galleries 28 cm ***
*** A Chinese finely potted porcelain bowl with a Millefleur pattern. An underglaze Qianlong seal mark to the base. A foliate shaped gold rim with extremely well painted flowers, the interior with a pale turquoise glaze. Depth 3 cm ***
*** A Chinese crackle glaze celadon conical shaped dish. Combed central design, celadon in an olive green hue. Condition: fine 2 cm hairline. Provenance: Private Collection of a former Australian Diplomat. Diameter 11.5 cm ***
*** A bulbous jar painted with figures playing Go & Gu Qin in underglaze blue on a red ground, apocryphal Longqing mark, height 17 cm, diameter 16 cm ***
*** A pair Straits Chinese porcelain tea bowls & dish, Qing Dynasty, 19th/20th century. On the white ground an overglaze enamel phoenix with a long yellow tail & flowering peony, iron red four character mark to base [3]. Provenance: tan Soo hock, thence by… ***
*** A Chinese porcelain bowl decorated with enamels depicting a winter scene, 20th century, seal mark to base, 21 cm diameter ***
*** A Chinese porcelain blue & white vase of flattened four sided form, decorated with scrolling lotus, apocryphal Qianlong seal to base, 34 cm high ***
*** A Chinese celadon bottle shaped vase, with a moulded floral decoration, height 27 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain dish in underglaze blue with a central painting of a rooster, the rooster used on dishes is quite rare, the rooster is the tenth animal in the horoscope and a person born in that year is hard-working and definite about their decisions.… ***
*** A Chinese porcelain dish in underglaze blue with a central painting, the fine pencil design of a gentleman. His arms crossed standing under a pine tree on a rocky ledge by a lake. Qing dynasty 18th century. Rim frits and small chips to the brown biscuit… ***
*** A Chinese blue and white glaze ceramic dish, the dish is decorated floral and bird motif, metal rim, unglazed base Provenance: from the private collection of an Australian diplomat, collected throughout Asia in the 1980's and 1990's. Diameter 19 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain bowl decorated in famille rose enamels depicting butterflies and flower sprays, apocryphal Qianlong seal mark to base, 15 cm diameter ***
*** A large Chinese crackle glazed celadon charger with stand. Provenance: The Residual of the Hutcheon's Estate. The Hutcheons lived in Shanghai & Hong Kong in the early & mid 20th century before moving to Sydney. Diameter 45 cm ***
*** A tall pair of Chinese vases with gilt highlights, Republic period (2), height 45 cm, diameter 18 cm ***
*** A large underglaze blue ginger jar, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, height 23 cm, diameter 23 cm ***
*** A Chinese pale blue celadon glaze water washer character mark to base possibly 18th/19th century diameter 12.5 cm ***
*** A fine tall bottle shaped vase in underglaze blue, with a long Flaring neck, 18th century seal mark to the base, the elegant proportions painted with a continuous leafy meander issuing large blooms, the shoulder with a band of alternating cartouche, a… ***
*** A Chinese enamel porcelain vase, Xuande mark to the base, height 39 cm, diameter 24 cm ***
*** A slender Chinese porcelain baluster-shaped vase, overglaze enamel, six character Yongzheng mark to base, two black and white birds sitting in a cherry blossom, condition: Fritting to Mouth, height 41 cm ***
*** An underglaze blue bowl painted birds & Peonies, Qianlong mark to the base, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. Condition: small chip to the rim. Provenance: The Estate of an Australian Diplomat, the Resident representative to south Korea in the 1960s. Height 5… ***
*** A Chinese porcelain incense burner, Cyclical date 1877, Qing Dynasty 19th/20th century, the inscription in underglaze blue is Zhang Zhong paying a tribute to Guanyin, height 20 cm, depth 17 cm ***
*** A Chinese jar Freely painted in underglaze blue and white, probably late Ming, 17th century, height 12.5 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain bowl, underglaze Inky blue design, deep foot with Ming six character mark, rosewood stand, diameter 14 cm ***
*** A Chinese crackle glazed pot, with lug side handles and rooster shaped spout, height 18 cm ***
*** A crackled glazed bowl with a foliate rim, the interior in a cream glaze the exterior in a blue-celadon glaze, Qing Dynasty diameter 33 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain planter, Neatly painted with figures in overglaze, the rounded body curving out from a flat foot, height 20 cm, diameter 15 cm ***
*** A large Chinese ceramic jardiniere ***
*** A Chinese porcelain underglaze blue bell with Ming mark and dragon handle, height 19 cm, diameter 16 cm ***
*** A fine porcelain Chinese blue & white Yen Yen vase. Republic period. Well painted with blue shading & a traditional scene in the style of the 18th century. This vase is a smaller version of the shape originated in the middle of the 17th century, a more… ***
*** Two Chinese porcelain vases and a water pot, the bottle vase with an intricately painted wise man in famille rose & seal mark to base, the other vase in famille verte enamels with flowering shrubs & a grasshopper & iron red mark to base. An underglaze… ***
*** Two Chinese blue and white ceramic bowls ***
*** A Chinese porcelain lidded box, a beauty seated on a rock reading, signed Xu Shanqin, a Tongzhi seal mark, 19th century, another beauty in the garden, taking a nap while leaning on a rock, painted in calm tones. Condition: small rim chips to rim of lid.… ***
*** A pair of Chinese porcelain cylindrical vases, Republic period, painted with black birds balancing on a branch on a moon lit night, considered the bird of happiness, height 28 cm ***
*** A yellow porcelain dish with dragons in aubergine and green glaze a Kangxi mark to base ***
*** A Chinese pottery jar, recovered from a shipwreck, heavily covered in coral and barnacles. Private collection, Perth. Purchased V.M Antiques, Ermita. Height 39 cm. Diameter 17 cm (at top) ***
*** A Chinese vase with irridescent glaze and gilt highlights decorated with dragons, clouds and lotus flowers. Marks to base. Height 42 cm ***
*** A Chinese bulbous jar with a Hundred Antiques pattern, Republic period, the sapphire blue glaze & design rendered in the Kangxi manner, height 19 cm ***
*** A pair of Chinese fine porcelain bowls, decorated in the doucai palette, with floral roundels, a six character Yongzheng mark to base in underglaze blue. Height 6 cm. Diameter 13 cm ***
*** A Chinese porcelain blue & white dish, with a central design of a cricket perched on top of stylised rocks, 18th century, the polygon dish made for the export market with a band around the rim below the gilt. Condition: crazing and rim frits ***
*** A Chinese yellow glazed dish with incised with cranes flying through the Clouds, the monochrome glaze evenly applied, a foliate rim, diameter 22 cm ***
*** A Chinese baluster form vase with applied handles an Even celadon green glaze, a bulbous body & short neck & flared mouth, 22 cm ***
*** A mirror pair of Chinese polychrome vases, Republic period, 1912-1949, decorated with beauties in a garden entertaining young children, height 40 cm ***
*** Two Chinese porcelain lidded boxes with red seal mark of Tongzhi mark, [1861-1875], Republic period, the circular boxes painted in overglaze enamel with figures, [2]. Provenance: The collection of a retired airline executive, height 12 cm ***
*** Three Chinese snuff bottles, an enamel and two porcelain,19th/20th century, the enamel bottle with mandarin ducks on the front and a long tailed pheasants to reverse, the porcelain bottle with a blue dragon on white ground within yellow border, signed Ju… ***
*** A Chinese vase of compressed globular shape, the glaze a greenish peachbloom, apocryphal Kangxi six character mark to base, but later. 9.5 cm high, . Width 14 cm. ***